Senior Designer - Freelance

AKQA • San Francisco, CA

6d • $3,600 - $4,000 • Remote

About The Position

At AKQA (part of WPP) we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients. Designers at AKQA approach every brief with fresh eyes and insight, from which they form original ideas and expressions. Through every moment of the creative process they are passionate and thoughtful about their craft. The most exciting of them pair strong brand design instincts with a fluency in social, creating content that feels native to the platforms it lives on. We are seeking a Freelance Senior Designer with a strong brand design background to help create social deliverables for one of the most iconic apparel brands in the world. Given the nature of social, exact deliverables are always evolving, but you will be creating a steady stream of social content built for platforms like TikTok and Instagram. This is a role for a conceptual, brand-minded designer who can move quickly and craft work that resonates natively across social. This is a freelance role from ASAP (latest start September 8) through October 2, 2026.

Requirements

• A compelling portfolio demonstrating strong brand design and social content, ideally with conceptual and social-first work
• Proven experience in brand design, with the craft and instincts to work across logo, typography, color, and visual systems
• Comfortable working in Google Suite and Photoshop and/or Figma
• Fast, resourceful, and comfortable with evolving deliverables in a fast-moving social environment
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across creative and cross-disciplinary teams
• Enthusiasm, passion, and ongoing curiosity for brand and social craft

Nice To Haves

• Experience shooting stills and video, as well as editing and retouching, is an added bonus but not a requirement (if editing, familiarity with Adobe Premiere and/or DaVinci Resolve)

Responsibilities

• Create social-first deliverables for platforms like TikTok and Instagram, bringing strong brand design craft to every piece
• Bring a brand and production focus to the work, translating brand systems into content that feels native to social
• Move quickly and adapt to evolving deliverables, staying nimble as social needs shift
• Develop compelling ideas and bring them to life across a range of social formats and placements
• Collaborate closely with the existing creative team to support incremental work on the account
• Maintain a consistently high aesthetic bar across a high volume of social content

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed